Despite this, there are a fair number of Ramada and Days Inn hotels across the UK and many are pretty cheap.

Outside the South East, sub-£30 prices at Days Inn hotels on off-peak dates can be found. This makes this promotion interesting.

Wyndham will give you 3,000 bonus American Airlines miles, on top of your base miles, for your next five stays at any Wyndham hotel.

This means that you can earn a maximum of 15,000 bonus AA miles.

There are no minimum stay requirements. You have until 29th February to book and until 7th March to complete your stay.

Even better, according to the small print, you can get credit for up to three rooms per stay. You could book three rooms at the same cheap Days Inn, check in for all three and get bonus miles for them all.

At a suitably cheap hotel (eg daysinn.co.uk has Days Inn Chesterfield is £21.25 on 20th December) you would be paying around 0.6p per AA mile. Not bad!

Cathay Pacific has announced a new ‘four flights a week’ service to Hong Kong from Gatwick. This is in addition to the existing services from Heathrow and Manchester. From September 2016, it will mean Cathay is operating 43 weekly flights from the UK.

Cathay will be using a brand new Airbus A350 on the route, configured with Business Class, Premium Economy and Economy. You can find out more on the Cathay website.

As a oneworld alliance member, you can redeem Avios points on this route. Availability should be pretty good as Cathay is known for being generous in opening up space on non-prime routes.

Remember that BA charges ‘peak day’ pricing every day for partner airlines, which means you will need fewer Avios if you book the British Airways service on an off-peak day. For peak day travel, however, I don’t see why you would bother with BA unless you had an British Airways American Express 2-4-1 voucher to burn. Cathay is generally seen as a superior airline in every respect.

Finally, Melia Rewards is running a sale on buying its own points. Until 28th February (it is a pretty long sale!) you will only be paying €5 per 1,000 instead of the usual €8. If you are looking to top up your account, this is not a bad opportunity. You can buy Melia points here (if the link does not work, log in and then click the link again).

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You say you can earn AA credit for up to three rooms at a time. Does this contribute to the 5 stays? I.e. Three rooms on one night would net 9,000 miles and leave you with 2 stays under the promotion. Or would you have a further 4 remaining?

As I read what Raffles has said, you get 3000 miles per stay AND can book up to three rooms for the same date and get credit for each of these rooms.
That would leave two rooms to book, together, for a different night to maximise the 15000 miles on offer

Massively OT: I have 2,750 Marriott points that are apparently going to expire at the beginning of Feb 2016 under the new rules. If anyone can use them, I’ll gladly transfer them over for the price of the transfer fee (about $10, I think). I’d rather someone gets the use of them than they just go to waste.